Jul 1977
VOLUME 8 - NUMBER 7
Sarawak Primeval
Memories of Japan
Yabyum Bronzes
Conquering Opium Country
Kabul’s Buzkashi
Cover. An 18th-century Tantric Buddhist icon of the yid-dam, or “guardian” and “Tutelary” class of deities from the Philip Goldman Collection, London, courtesy of the Werner forman Archive. Every Tantric Buddhist lama chooses a yid-dam or gets one from his mentor. A favorite guardian deity is the “Eternal Thunderbolt,” the Buddha Hevajra in yabyum union (mystic, nirvana-leading sexual congress) with his consort, Vajra-yogini. The male, yab, stands for the dynamic of Buddhist compassion; the female, yum, as the passive voidness of wisdom.
FEATURES
Norma A. Harteam. The Silver Tram
Westpoint of the East
Marcus Brooke. Conquest of Opium Country
Brian Langford and Dave Bartruff. Primeval Sarawak Lives
Paul Raffaele. A Shower of Japanese Memories
Rene Q. Bas. Yabyum Bronzes: Congress of the Holy
Maximo D. Ramos. Manananggal, the Filipino Self-Segmenter
Randall Biggers. Buzkashi of the Afghans
Austin Coates. A Mountain of Light
Pond Weed & Spring Swallows
Affandi: Indonesia’s Grand Old Man of Modern Art
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Destination: Sarawak
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Critical Essays on Chinese Literature
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 8 - NUMBER 7
Sarawak Primeval
Memories of Japan
Yabyum Bronzes
Conquering Opium Country
Kabul’s Buzkashi
Cover. An 18th-century Tantric Buddhist icon of the yid-dam, or “guardian” and “Tutelary” class of deities from the Philip Goldman Collection, London, courtesy of the Werner forman Archive. Every Tantric Buddhist lama chooses a yid-dam or gets one from his mentor. A favorite guardian deity is the “Eternal Thunderbolt,” the Buddha Hevajra in yabyum union (mystic, nirvana-leading sexual congress) with his consort, Vajra-yogini. The male, yab, stands for the dynamic of Buddhist compassion; the female, yum, as the passive voidness of wisdom.
FEATURES
Norma A. Harteam. The Silver Tram
Westpoint of the East
Marcus Brooke. Conquest of Opium Country
Brian Langford and Dave Bartruff. Primeval Sarawak Lives
Paul Raffaele. A Shower of Japanese Memories
Rene Q. Bas. Yabyum Bronzes: Congress of the Holy
Maximo D. Ramos. Manananggal, the Filipino Self-Segmenter
Randall Biggers. Buzkashi of the Afghans
Austin Coates. A Mountain of Light
Pond Weed & Spring Swallows
Affandi: Indonesia’s Grand Old Man of Modern Art
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Destination: Sarawak
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Critical Essays on Chinese Literature
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 8 - NUMBER 7
Sarawak Primeval
Memories of Japan
Yabyum Bronzes
Conquering Opium Country
Kabul’s Buzkashi
Cover. An 18th-century Tantric Buddhist icon of the yid-dam, or “guardian” and “Tutelary” class of deities from the Philip Goldman Collection, London, courtesy of the Werner forman Archive. Every Tantric Buddhist lama chooses a yid-dam or gets one from his mentor. A favorite guardian deity is the “Eternal Thunderbolt,” the Buddha Hevajra in yabyum union (mystic, nirvana-leading sexual congress) with his consort, Vajra-yogini. The male, yab, stands for the dynamic of Buddhist compassion; the female, yum, as the passive voidness of wisdom.
FEATURES
Norma A. Harteam. The Silver Tram
Westpoint of the East
Marcus Brooke. Conquest of Opium Country
Brian Langford and Dave Bartruff. Primeval Sarawak Lives
Paul Raffaele. A Shower of Japanese Memories
Rene Q. Bas. Yabyum Bronzes: Congress of the Holy
Maximo D. Ramos. Manananggal, the Filipino Self-Segmenter
Randall Biggers. Buzkashi of the Afghans
Austin Coates. A Mountain of Light
Pond Weed & Spring Swallows
Affandi: Indonesia’s Grand Old Man of Modern Art
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Destination: Sarawak
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Critical Essays on Chinese Literature
NEWS
Discoveries